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Chichester International Film Festival to celebrate its 20th anniversary
This August will mark the 20th Chichester International Film Festival, the biggest and most prestigious of its kind on the South Coast. Running from August 18 to September 4, 2011, the festival promises to bring cinema enthusiasts 18 days plus two separate pre-festival open air screenings crammed with premieres, special events and a shoalful of guests to celebrate the festival's 20th anniversary.
Over the last five years past premieres – English or UK firsts – previews, and new releases at the festival have included The Illusionist, Made in Dagenham, Cyrus, Dog Pound, The Maid, Alamar, Conversations with My Gardener, Ben X, Tamara Drewe, L'Affaire Farewell, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Dorian Gray, Atonement, The Duchess, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, I've Loved you so Long, The Wave and many others including Mike Leigh's masterful Topsy Turvy.
Roger Gibson, Chichester International Festival's artistic director, screened 93 films at last year's event, over half being premieres, previews and new releases. Audiences, up by an impressive 20%, were treated to 136 screenings, six illustrated talks and 40 previews. Opening last year's film festival, Screen South Chairman Graham Benson declared that it was 'yet another action packed and bejewelled Chichester International Film Festival.'
This year's film festival will include the following, specific previews, premieres and opening and closing Gala films to be revealed a month before the festival:
• Focus on the Documentary : Treasured from the Archives/ Classic Revivals;
• Talks: Discussions; Visiting Film-makers.
• Retrospectives on:
• Terence Rattigan, including David Hare introducing The Browning Version (1951) with Michael Redgrave, and an illustrated talk on Rattigan's films by his biographer Michael Darlow, who also introduces Journey Together (1944),
• A short selection of the films of Sir Ian McKellen, including Richard III (1995) and Gods and Monsters(1998).
• Tributes to the late Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), including a preview of his last film Bellamy (2010),starring Gerard Depardieu, and Pete Postlethwaite with an illustrated talk by Michael Coveney
• Mahler's Centenary with Ken Russell introducing his Mahler (1974), John Coldstream (Dirk Bogarde's biographer),introducing Visconti's Death in Venice(1971); Jeremy Barnham's(Lecturer in Music) illustrated talk on Mahler in Film, and UK premiere of Mahler on the Couch (Percy and Felix Aldon,2010)
• Dirk Bogarde's 90th commemoration(1921-1999) with an illustrated talk by nephew Brock Van den Bogaerde and John Coldstream-films include Victim (1961) King and Country (1964) , The Servant (1963).
• Partnerships with:
• Pallant House Gallery with Frida and Diego-complementing the exhibition with related films on Jacques Gelman,(Cantiflas films), Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin(1925),Thunder over Mexico (1933), Frida (2002 )and an illustrated talk on Film, Art and Politics by Ian Christie, Professor of film
• *Horrors at the Multiplex: The best of Fright Fest(5 horror films including Troll Hunters, A Lonely Place to Die).
• 50th anniversary of The Avengers, introduced by Roger Marshall, director, in conjunction with University of Sussex.
• Open Air all digital film screenings at Priory Park, Chichester: Bizet's Carmen (Covent Garden(2007) on 12 August from 7.30 pm and 50th anniversary preview of the restored West Side Story (1961) on 13 August from 7.30 pm.
Over the last 20 years the festival has screened a range of global cinema that is wide and extraordinary – biopics, dramas, horror, comedies, documentaries – some of which have their first screenings at the cinema outside of Cannes, Berlin and Edinburgh. Last year retrospectives included works by Kurosawa and Jack Cardiff, archival material also part of the mix.
Guest artists and speakers, onstage and off, that have visited the premier South Coast film festival have included Alec Guinness, Mike Leigh, Phil Davis, Mike Figgis, David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, Greta Scacchi, Corin Redgrave, Kathleen Turner, Tony Palmer, Derek Malcolm, Nick Moran, Ken Russell, Simon Callow and documentary maker Craig McCall.
Gibson said about the festival, 'Last year's festival was our biggest and most ambitious festival to date with many gratifying compliments about the range and variety of the programme. Despite recession and the inevitable reduction in funding and sponsorship, we bring to Chichester and the South Coast the very best in world cinema, to celebrate imagination, originality and diversity. With the festival celebrating its 20th anniversary this year's programme promises to be as equally ambitious and exciting.'
The 20th Chichester International Film Festival programme will be announced in early summer.
For further details visit www.chichestercinema.org
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This is the sixth section of Chapter 1: Number Relationships.
The Learning Goal for this section is to: Develop a strong understanding of expanded form and scientific notation, and to be able to compare large numbers in different formats.
In the introduction, we defined Scientific Notation and Expanded Form, and gave examples of each. There were a number of additional examples on the board, but they didn't make it into the notes.
In this activity, students needed to compare the total number of heartbeats in the lifetime of an old man and a parrot. The objective was to show students how exponential notation can come in useful.
The support questions for this section were on p. 22-23, #4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (choose any 6).
The support questions for the Mid-Chapter Review were on p. 24-25, #4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (choose any 5).


Aims To examine the role of learning disability liaison nurses in facilitating reasonable and achievable adjustments to support access to general hospital services for people with learning disabilities. Design Mixed methods study involving four health boards in Scotland with established Learning Disability Liaison Nurses (LDLN) Services. Quantitative data of all liaison nursing referrals over 18 months and qualitative data collected from stakeholders with experience of using the liaison services within the previous 3-6 months. Methods Six liaison nurses collected quantitative data of 323 referrals and activity between September 2008-March 2010. Interviews and focus groups were held with 85 participants included adults with learning disabilities (n = 5), carers (n = 16), primary care (n = 39), general hospital (n = 19) and liaison nurses (n = 6). Results/findings Facilitating reasonable and achievable adjustments was an important element of the LDLNs' role and focussed on access to information; adjustments to care; appropriate environment of care; ensuring equitable care; identifying patient need; meeting patient needs; and specialist tools/resources. Conclusion Ensuring that reasonable adjustments are made in the general hospital setting promotes person-centred care and equal health outcomes for people with a learning disability. This view accords with 'Getting it right' charter produced by the UK Charity Mencap which argues that healthcare professionals need support, encouragement and guidance to make reasonable adjustments for this group. LDLNs have an important and increasing role to play in advising on and establishing adjustments that are both reasonable and achievable.


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I am not a very focussed person and it takes me a lot of effort to structure anything. I also just can't hack doing proper research. Undismayed, not to say brazen, I have converted this evident intellectual laziness, if not inability, into a positive by making a virtue out of not being expert.
All of which makes me a proud generalist.
At its worst proper people see people like me as a butterfly, a pretty thing maybe, yet with little depth, flitting from flower to flower. These are often what I view as biassed supporters of the disastrous reign in the 20th Century of the Expert, who still come to plague us. Those of us who are indeed Generalists celebrate our phenomenon as a wide set of experiences, providing varied layers (strata) of competence that enrich our offer – and from which you can now benefit also!
It all began when I was three years old, a disastrous start in life that led to me being abandoned at seven years old and whose effects lasted well into my teens. But it taught me self-motivation, self-reliance and the desirability of utter self-sufficiency.
From that dates my respect for native intelligence.
My first break was being introduced to making music at age 9 and I spent all of my teens playing and singing. I went through all the voices from treble to bass and sang in a full choir, a male voice choir and a sixteen voice madrigal choir. I learnt classical piano up to Grade V including a year with a retired Canadian concert pianist who had me playing Chopin and Beethoven by the age of 11, the Chopin soloist in school concerts from the start.
Mid-teens I did two years violin, bowing somewhere on the back desk of the second violins and I was invited to become the pianist holding together the playing of our local junior schools string orchestra. At this time I also did two years basic classical composition, Britten being my great discovery at that time. I taught myself guitar and accordeon, eventually ending up working the revival folk music circuit and where I first encountered the McGarrigle Sisters at Cambridge Folk Festival, artists I was later to work closely with including their final concert at the Albert Hall before Kate died of cancer.
This early development of my ear helped me two years later as I began to acquire the song of other languages and became pretty proficient in French and Spanish and eventually Italian.
From all these experiences date my respect for apprenticeship and the benefits of practice.
where I learned I had a capacity for negotiation.
At University, on the sidelines of my somewhat relaxed studies, I was a minor composer and poet (I still have the refusal letter from Alan Brownjohn.) I failed to get a first as this was 1970 and we were punished for the excesses of the year before when the universities were running scared in front of the soixante-huitards. Whatever, I was enrolled for a PhD and invited back to my French university to teach phonetics and Shakespeare, where I also developed two language laboratory course for senior post-graduates working at CAPES and Agrégation levels (which were still in use a decade later I was horrified to learn).
Out of this my lifelong respect for the word and for language was confirmed.
People like me escape their circumstances through education, it is a world truth. I was encouraged to climb on the achievement ladder and only got off when I found myself doing that somehow inevitable PhD and automatically destined for a career as an academic.
From this I learnt that nothing need remain inevitable if you can imagine yourself somewhere else.
I possessed the skill of presentation which came from my music but also fuelled my abilities as teacher, amateur theatre director and actor. So suddenly I recycled myself as an actor-teacher and co-founded a theatre collective.
From that leap forward I learnt that change can be provoked and yet controlled.
After five years of that I clearly was not going to earn much money from acting, as had been the case with my music, so I switched to actor training at one of London's drama schools, collaborating in the creation of a new course of training for people normally denied access on class, race and orthodoxy grounds.
There I learned both to be generous with knowledge, and that the student's question teaches the teacher.
I am proud of the people we introduced to the theatre and related professions at this time but there are a finite number of jobs in these fields and eventually I felt we should no longer keep pumping out new talent into such a restricted market. Here were a hundred brave new souls, surely that was enough.
From this I learnt to have the courage to move on.
At that point the Socialists got into power in France and I returned to my adopted region of South-West France to set up a workers cultural expression project under a French Ministry of Culture programme so that their stories might be told. Among other things, we created a TV soap, published an audio book from a young draft dodger, made musical instruments and revived the lost history of a closed glassworks.
This sealed a lifelong professional commitment to freeing the absent voice.
But the Right got back in eventually, as they do, and the Ministry of Culture department funding me was shut down. As it was I had been flattered into taking up a challenging succession post at a London arts centre and I returned to the UK. This was right in the middle of the abolition of the GLC and the ILEA by Margaret Thatcher but I failed to convince the Board to back some difficult choices.
I was a naive and inexperienced manager and that failure taught me a lot.
I met a Yuppie on a train around this time (the then acronym for a Young and UPwardly mobile PErson) and hated him for his swagger. But it struck me on reflection that he was talking as enthusiastically about his work as I had done at his age. The energy had obviously gone elsewhere, even if I disapproved, and I was in danger of becoming an old fuddy-duddy. Up until then people like me had proudly shunned the dirt in money, but had ended up with no idea how the economy worked in spite of our tendentious reading. Nor did I know where Moorgate actually was. So I left and went into the City.
This was my finest role.
I bought a suit and went in as a disillusioned teacher – it was very popular at the time to bash teachers and they were delighted I had switched sides to join the money-grabbing bastards. It was the time of champagne bars and crazy drinking sessions in the Corney and Barrows. I got a temp job as a data entry clerk on a Treasury project drummed up by Thatcher to launch the UK debit card system. I was assessed within 3 months – for the first time in my life – and offered the sack or promotion, eventually reaching senior manager for planning before Barclays undermined the project and it had to close. I learnt masses there about computing, business, the economy and management, and that capitalists dispassionately sell an asset when it is working at its best, whereas I thought it was the other way round.
It was like doing an MBA but without the paper qualification to show for it.
Like most actors' experience, there were rest periods in between all these jobs when I used to supply teach in difficult London schools but this was to be the final gap for doing that. Over the years I had taught in a sink Primary school with 14 languages spoken in the one class, had the dubious distinction of teaching English to the future killers of Stephen Lawrence, taught computing to reluctant Kayleys on a Brutalist estate, to finally end up being touted as Head of French for a massive inner city comprehensive.
no one is safe from the noxious effects of entropy.
Back self-employed for the third time I was happy for the time to take stock. As diplomat, teacher and performer I clearly had a set of portable skills that could be applied elsewhere and I had 4,500 contacts in my address book from all these different lives. Looking back over my crazy trajectory I realised that most of what I had been involved in was indeed about finding space for the absent voice to be heard; this was the great unifying value of all my work and it gave me a clear future objective. I had tried consultancy but I am no good at writing reports and I do not agree with the situation where an outsider goes in and thinks they can tell a group of people in trouble instantly how to behave.
and those became my inputs.
I was being seen as one of the Elders.
By careful selection so as not to duplicate any sector, I collated together a portfolio of board membership and advisory positions for a range of cultural organisations. All unpaid.
also has something to do with this plus the fact that I feel the need to get stuff written down before it goes past its sell-by date.
I am set next to become a publisher.
And now has begun what my sister-in-law calls my nice life, untrammelled by deadline and deliverable, where I can travel far and wide to see people not places, and host an endless round of house parties in my quirky Sussex home.
I reckon I am at stage 3, if not knocking on the door of number four; that time to disengage, a welcome stop from being so bloody purposeful all the time and where I can then allow myself to slowly fade out.
But, hey, not quite yet!


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Artisan Entertainment (anteriormente conhecida como U.S.A. Home Video, International Video Entertainment (IVE) e LIVE Entertainment) foi uma empresa de home video e estúdio de produção cinematográfico americano. Foi considerado um dos maiores mini-grandes estúdios de cinema até que foi comprado pelo mais recente estúdio de cinema Lions Gate Entertainment em 2003. Na época em que foi vendida para Lions Gate, Artisan tinha uma biblioteca de milhares de filmes desenvolvidos por meio de aquisição, produção original e acordos de produção e distribuição. Sua sede esteve localizada em Santa Monica, Califórnia. O estúdio também tinha um escritório em Tribeca e em Manhattan, New York.

Os lançamentos de Artisan incluíam Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Grizzly Falls, Killing Zoe, National Lampoon's Van Wilder, The Blair Witch Project, Novocaine, and Startup.com.

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Last year I tried for some Lake Michigan smallies, unfortunately, was a few weeks late and they were hanging out by the rock walls. Anyone doing any good along the shorelines lately for smallies?
I'd like to go out on Sunday, if possible.
it's been dead in my usual spots.
Haven't had a lot of time to fish but same here,0 for 3. Going to try cal park area Saturday. Hope to give a report.
Haven't been out for around 3 weeks to avoid fishing them during spawn and on beds but Id imagine they have just about finished up and will be back on the walls/breakwalls soon.
Anyone doing anything with smallies?
No kids this weekend. No wife. Fishing being caught would be the trifecta of a perfect weekend!
Some guys are doing well, but something did change.
This is my first year fishing locally often. Northside.. last 5-6 years always up on the chain. Working on these bass but no luck at MH last week, lots of trips to the lagoons with one good day. Daily tying to pick out little ponds just north of the city that hold bass. Had my first kid 3 months ago so local angling has stepped to the forefront of my downtime. Even tho I couldn't catch a cold I'm enjoying myself.
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A Security Incident Explained as it Happened (Roughly)
Kristo Helasvuo
It is a nightmare for anyone running an Internet facing information system when customers inform you that something strange going on. At first thought you might think it's user error, or maybe the only strange thing is the customer themselves. However sometimes when you start digging the case deeper, you find traces of suspicious activity or even actual changes done or even worse, something completely missing or replaced.
I had recently the pleasure to look into one of such events, when a customer's Internet facing information system, running an unidentified content management system, was found compromised. The customer noticed that things, things that the intruder did not intend to change, had changed, and therefore started to ponder what is going on. For the benefit of this system, built using nonstandard methods and layouts, made the attacker vulnerable to be noticed at the early stage. Since the attacker was using more or less standard procedure, as many are, she assumed that her changes to the system will go unnoticed for a long time. Indeed this is the core aim for any persistent attacks; to stay under the radar as long time as possible. For this intruder it only lasted a week.
All content management systems inherit the systemic vulnerability of the browser based applications, where functionalities are embedded into the content, causing heavy maintenance overhead to the publishing process to ensure that no such process instructions are found inside of the content, in this case text, itself. As these kind of vulnerabilities are very common, this attacker tried to exploit it by introducing a hidden change to the content management systems formatting specifications to allow any of such formatting on both the server or client side. She assumed that by only changing the content format definition to allow such instructions to be embedded would not cause changes on the surface. And indeed in many cases they would not. But luckily in this case, the content was laid out in a way which did reveal the slight change immediately and widely. In the case this would remain unnoticed, and the access to the system would remain, the system had been converted in effect to a malicious nest of worms and other nasty creatures. A nest which would not look like a trap for the user, but instead an innocent customer service department or breakfast room.
Furthermore this attacker was not of the best or most diligent kind of them as, she gained access to the system using a stolen password, and did not clean her traces (i.e. logs) and the whole of her conception of a backdoor was just a bunch of custom-made admin accounts easily spotted among the real ones. But she was clever enough to take her time, kindly waited what will happen, and not proceed too quickly.
What remains under investigation is of course who did all this, and there are clear evidence on that. Of course you could be creative, and ask if it's done by the one who granted admin privileges to his/her legitimate login credentials, or was it the parasite like creature who tried to build her house on neighbour's soil? After all she was just trying to set up yet another launch pad for her, where she could live and stay — maybe because she was kicked out from her previous accommodation?
As a final note, easy ways to defend this kind of parasites; keep your password policy clear and enforce it, do not do anything in cleartext in public, read the manual, don't underestimate the lower level border around maintenance interfaces and most importantly do things a bit different than others. The last advice is crucial, as most of the exploits are developed against a rather stable environment, a slight change in the setup or just behaviour, might uncover if not invalidate them quicker than you think! And yes, please do remember to perform regular backups.
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Sellers whose kitchens are old and outdated, but who don't want to spend money gutting and remodeling, should consider these tips from interior designers for updating inexpensively.
Buy new lighting. Replace fixed ceiling lights with modern movable track fixtures.
Replace the hardware. Handles on today's cabinets are large and sleek instead of small and ornate. Also, brass is out. Replacing the outmoded ones can make the whole room look more modern.
Buy a new faucet. A stylish faucet can make a big difference.
Update the backsplash. Colorful mosaic tiles are better than plain boring tile.
Buy new seating. If sellers can't afford that, then they can certainly reupholster or replace the cushions.
Clean up the clutter. Get rid of the canister set, the breadbox, and all the appliances on the counters. Leave only one bowl of fruit and a plant on the countertops.


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Q: Issues on 12.04.3 on Asus Notebook with geforce 710m I have 12.04.3 installed on an ASUS x552CL notebook which has GeForce 710M(optimus).
I have 2 issues:

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*Wireless gets disabled from hardware switch, I resolved it using
 echo "options asus_nb_wmi wapf=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/asus.conf

*Nouveau unknow fermi chipset, I solved by installing bumblebee
My questions are:

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*Are those 2 issues which I described above solved in some updates or patches for 12.04.3?
Because I'm having my 12.04.3 up-to-date didn't solve them.

*Can i get rid of Nouveau driver ?
I heard it's buggy. I've read a post of some guy on a forum that removed nouveau and installed the intel integrated video chipset drivers and after that he installed the nvidia drivers and bumblebee.

A: I am not aware of any update in 12.04.3 or, for that matter, any later Ubuntu version, that addresses the asus_nb_wmi issue. That's why driver parameters exist; if the built-in driver doesn't exactly fit your particular laptop model, you may have success trying a parameter, in your case, wapf=1. Once you have discovered and implemented it, I see nothing wrong with just using it for what it was intended without expecting an immediate update.

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Q: Can we congratulate someone on a birthday or a new year? What verb should I use instead of an ellipsis?
Suppose I said "Happy birthday" to John. Then, I decided to tell my friend that I ... John with/on his birthday.
The point is I want to highlight that I didn't just said "Happy birthday" to John, but I sort of congratulated him on it. But I don't think the verb "congratulate" fits here, because it's more about success and achievements rather than an age mark.
P.S. The same question can be applied to the following situation:

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*I ... Carmen with/on a New Year.


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Q: Android Data Binding Issue: The expression XXX cannot be inverted I'm a newbie for android data binding.
I want to bind multiple SeekBars to a collection of float, such as
SeekBar1.progress <---> modelArray[0]
SeekBar2.progress <---> modelArray[1]
...

Since the progress of SeekBar is a Int type, I think it would be better to use Converter, and below is the converter code:
import android.databinding.InverseMethod
import android.util.Log
import kotlin.math.roundToInt
class Converter {
    @InverseMethod("progressToFloat")
    fun floatToProgress(value: Float): Int {
        val result = (value * 100.0f).roundToInt()
        Log.i("MODEL", "convert $value to $result(Int)")
        return result
    }

    fun progressToFloat(value: Int): Float {
        return value.toFloat()/100.0f
    }
}

and the model structure looks like:
class Model {
 val params by lazy {
        ObservableArrayMap<Int, Float>()
 }
 //....
}

and my xml is following:
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <data class="MyBinding">
        <variable name="Converter" type="com.mypackage.model.Converter"></variable>
        <variable
            name="Converter"
            type="com.mypackage.model.Converter"></variable>

        <variable
            name="model"
            type="com.mypackage.model.Model"></variable>
    </data>
...
        <SeekBar
            android:id="@+id/seekBar"
            android:layout_width="100dp"
            android:layout_height="30dp"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
            android:progress="@={Converter.floatToProgress(model.params[0])}"/>

The problem is, every time I build it, it shows :
Found data binding errors.
****/ data binding error ****
msg:The expression converter.floatToProgress(modelParams0) cannot be inverted:
There is no inverse for method floatToProgress, you must add an @InverseMethod
annotation to the method to indicate which method should be used when using
it in two-way binding expressions

I already refer to lots of website, includes following:
https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/android-data-binding-inverse-functions-95aab4b11873
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/data-binding/two-way
But I still cannot find out what problem is. Could anyone give me some suggestion?
My development environment
macOS High Sierra,
Android Studio 3.2.1, with compileSdkVersion 28 and gradle 3.2.1

Update:
I also try to write Converter as following :
object Converter { // change to object
    @InverseMethod("progressToFloat")
    @JvmStatic fun floatToProgress(value: Float): Int { // Add static
        val result = (value * 100.0f).roundToInt()
        Log.i("MODEL", "convert $value to $result(Int)")
        return result
    }

    @JvmStatic fun progressToFloat(value: Int): Float { // Add static
        return value.toFloat()/100.0f
    }
}

It still does not work.
Solution
Ok, I found the problem: My project does not use Kapt.
After add it to build.gradle, all works fine.
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
Also, I update my converter body as following:
object Converter {
    @InverseMethod("progressToFloat")
    @JvmStatic fun floatToProgress(value: Float): Int {
        val result = (value * 100.0f).roundToInt()
        Log.i("MODEL", "convert $value to $result(Int)")
        return result
    }

    @JvmStatic fun progressToFloat(value: Int): Float {
        val result =  value.toFloat()/100.0f
        Log.i("MODEL", "convert $value to $result(Float)")
        return result
    }
}

If the @JVMStatic removed, the project can compile successfully, but the binding does not work.
Thanks everyone who give my suggestion. I think I just ask a silly question.
Refer to:Databinding annotation processor kapt warning

A: Solution
Ok, I found the problem: My project does not use Kapt. After add it to build.gradle, all works fine.
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

Also, I update my converter body as following:
object Converter {
    @InverseMethod("progressToFloat")
    @JvmStatic fun floatToProgress(value: Float): Int {
        val result = (value * 100.0f).roundToInt()
        Log.i("MODEL", "convert $value to $result(Int)")
        return result
    }

    @JvmStatic fun progressToFloat(value: Int): Float {
        val result =  value.toFloat()/100.0f
        Log.i("MODEL", "convert $value to $result(Float)")
        return result
    }
}

If the @JVMStatic removed, the project can compile successfully, but the binding does not work.
Thanks everyone who give my suggestion. I think I just ask a silly question.
Refer to:Databinding annotation processor kapt warning

A: In my case the problem was that I was trying to make a custom TwoWay DataBinding Adapter
but my field in the ViewModel class was LiveData instead of MutableLiveData


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Mortgage rates in New Jersey are available from individual lending institutions, along with averages posted online by national web sites such as LendingTree.com, BankRate.com and Zillow.com.
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In 2013, the median US property tax bill was $2,132, according to an analysis published in April 2015 by Zillow, the real estate website, using the most recent data available. The report also found that seven of the ten counties in the nation with the highest median property tax bills for single-family homes were in New Jersey, with Bergen at $9,546 ranked third (behind New York's Westchester at $13,842 and Rockland at $10,550). Other counties in the state on the national top ten list were #4 Essex ($9,288); #6 Passaic ($8,978); #7 Union ($8,926); #8 Morris ($8,549); #9 Hudson ($8,407); and #10 Hunterdon ($8,392).
In 2018, a federal report found that there were 9,398 homeless individuals in New Jersey, up from 8,536 in 2017 (based on a count conducted on one day in the year).
New Jersey's residential housing market features a diverse variety of builders, from national firms to individual builders constructing single family homes. The state's largest homebuilder is Hovnanian Enterprises founded in 1959 by the late Kevork Hovnanian, which also has operations in 15 other states, including New York, Florida, Arizona, Texas, and California; it ranked as the seventh largest homebuilder nationally with over $2.1 billion in 2014 revenues, according to annual rankings published in May 2015 by Pro Builder magazine. Toll Brothers based in Pennsylvania--the fifth largest US builder with just under $4 billion in 2014 revenue--is also active in New Jersey, specializing in upscale single-family homes and multi-family condominium projects. Lennar, one of the nation's largest builders, has ten communities in New Jersey as of 2015.
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Q: Install or use software on Azure Devops Hosted Agent I am new to Azure Devops and hoping this is a simple fix. I have a powershell script that uses Tabular Editor to deploy .bim file to Azure Analyses Services. This works great on my local machine. I have tried to get this working in the devops pipelines with no luck. I haven't found away to install the software on the hosted agent - Question 1) can I install software on a Hosted Agent e.g. on Hosted VS2017.
Failing being able to install software on Microsoft's hosted agent. I checked in the TabularEditor.exe file into the source code  (I know this ins't best practise). The executable file gets put into the build artifact and publishes. Then in the release when my powershell script is called it just hangs, the script gets stuck here. The powershell script reads from a config file and also uses the path to the tabulareditor executable.
The script I am using works fine if you use a self hosted machine assuming the agent has the correct permissions.
I have another Analyses Services script that is ready and works provided Someone creates an XMLA of the model first, then we provide that as an input instead of a .bim file. But this is not quite the automated route I am looking for.
Also I am aware that there is a third party task that does azure analyses services deployment but I want to avoid using that.
In summary I am looking to find out
1) if I can indeed install software on Microsofts Hosted Agent
2) Should I be able to use the executable in my build artifact instead
3) Is there a better way to deploy Analyses services with a .bim file
I appreciate this is long winded and slightly unique but any insight or information would be appreciated.
Thanks


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Justia Dockets & Filings Third Circuit Pennsylvania Eastern District DIXON v. SHINSEKI Filing 25
DIXON v. SHINSEKI
MEMORANDUM AND/OR OPINION. SIGNED BY HONORABLE CYNTHIA M. RUFE ON 6/24/14. 6/25/14 ENTERED AND COPIES E-MAILED.(mbh, )
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ____________________________________ DWAYNE T. DIXON : Plaintiff, : : v. : CIVIL ACTION NO. 12-3756 : SLOAN D. GIBSON, Acting Secretary : of Veterans Affairs* : Defendant. : MEMORANDUM OPINION Rufe, J. June 24, 2014 Plaintiff, a former employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA"), filed suit alleging discrimination and retaliation under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"). Defendant moved to dismiss the complaint, arguing that Plaintiff failed to initiate the required contact with an Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") counselor "within 45 days of the date of the matter alleged to be discriminatory or, in the case of personnel action, within 45 days of the effective date of the action."1 In response, Plaintiff argued that equitable tolling excused his timely compliance with the regulations. The Court denied the motion to dismiss and allowed the parties to conduct discovery on the issue of the timeliness of Plaintiff's administrative complaint. Discovery on this issue completed, Defendant now moves for summary judgment, and for the reasons that follow, the motion will be granted. * Substituted pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d). 1 29 C.F.R. § 1614.105(a)(1). I. Background The facts, where disputed, are set forth in the light most favorable to Plaintiff as the non- moving party. Plaintiff began working for the VA in 2007. In January 2010, Plaintiff was diagnosed with a periodontal disease and was disciplined for missing four days of work. Plaintiff complained to an EEO Counselor about this discipline, but no formal complaint was filed. On January 7, 2011, Plaintiff was constructively discharged by the VA. On January 9, 2011, Plaintiff filed a claim for unemployment compensation with the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Department of Labor and Industry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.2 On February 14, 2011, Plaintiff, without professional assistance, drafted the paperwork and filed an appeal of the denial of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review.3 On March 9, 2011, Plaintiff appeared before the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review for a hearing and testified.4 On November 25, 2011, Plaintiff initiated contact with an EEO Counselor.5 There is no dispute that this contact came long after the 45 days mandated in the regulations. On March 5, 2012, Plaintiff filed a formal complaint of race and age discrimination with the VA.6 On April 18, 2012, the VA made a final agency decision to dismiss Plaintiff's complaint as untimely, determining that Plaintiff could have initiated contact with an EEO Counselor in a timely 2 Referee's Order, Feb. 7, 2011, Ex. B to Def.'s Mot. Summ. J. 3 Dixon Dep., Nov. 1, 2013 at 35-36, Ex. D to Def.'s Mot. Summ. J. 4 Id. at 36. 5 Notice of Dismissal, Apr. 18, 2012, Ex. C, to Def.'s Mot. Summ. J. 6 Id. 2 manner, because he was able to pursue his unemployment compensation case immediately after his constructive discharge.7 This lawsuit followed. II. Standard of Review A court will award summary judgment on a claim or part of a claim where there is "no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law."8 A fact is "material" if resolving the dispute over the fact "might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing [substantive] law."9 A dispute is "genuine" if "the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party."10 "On summary judgment, inferences to be drawn from underlying facts contained in moving party's materials must be viewed in light most favorable to party opposing motion."11 III. Discussion Before filing a complaint under Title VII or ADEA in federal court, an aggrieved employee must first "initiate contact with a Counselor within 45 days of the date of the matter alleged to be discriminatory."12 The agency shall dismiss an entire complaint that "fails to comply with the applicable time limits contained in [§]1614.105"13 unless the time limits "are subject to waiver, estoppel and equitable tolling."14 The regulations therefore accord with case law holding that such pre-suit requirements "should not be treated as inflexible jurisdictional 7 Id. 8 Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). 9 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1986). 10 Id. 11 Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Co., 398 U.S. 144, 158-59 (1970). 12 29 C.F.R. § 1614.105(a)(1). 13 29 C.F.R. § 1614.107(a)(2). 14 29 C.F.R. § 1614.604(c). 3 prerequisites, but should be subject to equitable modifications."15 At the same time, "strict adherence to the procedural requirements [for gaining access to the federal courts] specified by the legislature is the best guarantee of evenhanded administration of the law."16 The questions before the Court are straightforward: Did Plaintiff timely initiate contact with an EEO counselor, which both parties agree is a prerequisite to filing suit in this Court, and, if not, is the delay equitably tolled either by Plaintiff's health problems or his fear of violence and physical harm from VA employees? The first question requires little discussion. Plaintiff contends that he exhausted administrative remedies when he spoke with an EEO counselor in September 2010 regarding discipline imposed by the VA at that time.17 Plaintiff argues that because that discipline was a "precursor to his ultimate constructive discharge" this contact "satisfied the exhaustion requirement also with respect to his January 7, 2011 constructive discharge."18 However, there is no dispute that Plaintiff never filed a formal complaint after the 2010 meeting, and therefore failed to exhaust administrative remedies.19 More importantly, that meeting related to a discrete employment action (discipline for missing work) and not to the constructive discharge, which occurred months later. Therefore, Plaintiff did not timely exhaust his administrative remedies, and the Court must consider whether the failure to do so may be excused through equitable tolling. The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has set forth three circumstances in which equitable tolling may be invoked: "(1) where the defendant has actively misled the plaintiff 15 Hart v. J.T. Baker Chemical Co., 598 F.2d 829, 832 (3d Cir. 1979). 16 Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown, 466 U.S. 147, 152 (1984) (internal quotation omitted). 17 Pl.'s Mem. Law Opp'n Def.'s Mot. Summ. J. at 6. 18 Id. 19 29 C.F.R. §§ 1614.105-.106 4 respecting the plaintiff's cause of action; (2) where the plaintiff in some extraordinary way has been prevented from asserting his or her rights; or (3) where the plaintiff has timely asserted his or her rights mistakenly in the wrong forum."20 With regard to the first circumstance, Plaintiff concedes that he knew how to pursue an EEO complaint from the posters and newsletter published at his work location by the VA21 and that he was on notice of the requirement for filing an EEO complaint.22 Given that Plaintiff had previously initiated contact with an EEO counselor when he was disciplined a year before his employment ended, there is no dispute that he was aware of the requirement and that the VA did not "actively mislead" him into failing to exhaust administrative remedies. There is also no dispute that the third circumstance, timely assertion in the wrong forum, is not at issue here. Therefore, the only question is whether Plaintiff's health problems or the alleged threats from VA employees constitute extraordinary circumstances that prevented him from asserting his rights in a timely manner. The Court holds that as a matter of law they did not. Plaintiff states that he was diagnosed with a "major depressive disorder by VA doctors in December 2010" and received therapy.23 However, the contention that Plaintiff's health problems prevented him from pursuing his administrative remedies is fatally undercut by the undisputed fact that, within days after his employment ended, Plaintiff filed a claim for unemployment compensation, appealed the denial of his claim, attended the appeal hearing in person, and testified at that hearing.24 All of this occurred within two months of Plaintiff's 20 Oshiver v. Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, 38 F.3d 1380, 1387 (3d Cir. 1994). 21 Dixon Dep. at 31. 22 Id. at 38. 23 Id. at 34. 24 Id. at 34-37. 5 constructive discharge, and therefore Plaintiff cannot establish that his health issues were severe enough to prevent him from timely initiating contact with an EEO counselor within 45 days.25 Plaintiff's alleged fear of violence and physical harm from VA employees is similarly unavailing. Plaintiff fails to explain how, once he no longer worked for the VA, such threats could act as a deterrent, especially as the nature of threats as described by Plaintiff related only to his work.26 Plaintiff asserted that there were "physical threats" and "verbal threats" made to him while he was employed by the VA, and that his "[fear] for [his] life or at least [his] physical well-being" prevented him from "responding initially."27 When asked about the nature of the threats, however, Plaintiff testified in his deposition that he "wouldn't get [his] work or those things that [he] needed to maintain his particular numbers."28 Plaintiff further explained that he "had certain point numbers that [he] had to maintain in order to either keep the certain designation where [he] was … or to be promoted to the next level."29 Although Plaintiff alleged in his EEO Complaint that "[he] was threatened with physical violence by VA employees who were connected to upper management,"30 he did not offer any evidence that the alleged threats extended to the period after his constructive discharge. Under 25 Green v. Postmaster General of U.S., 437 F. App'x 174, 178 (3d Cir. 2011) (holding that equitable tolling did not apply where the plaintiff claimed severe depression but was able to file pre-complaint forms on two occasions). The Court notes that Plaintiff produced no evidence, such as from a treating health professional, that his mental health difficulties were so severe as to render Plaintiff incapable of exhausting his administrative remedies. See also Hatcher v. Potter, 196 F. App'x 120, 122-23 (3d Cir. 2006) (holding that the filing of a worker's compensation application justified the refusal to apply equitable tolling). Accord Estacio v. Potter, No. 06-2598, 2008 WL 356478, at *7 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 6, 2008) (holding that mental illness may toll the statute of limitation in "only extreme cases, where the illness in fact prevents the sufferer from managing his affairs and therefore from understanding and acting upon his legal rights."), aff'd, 344 F. App'x 810 (3d Cir. 2009). 26 Dixon Dep. at 21. 27 Id. at 17. 28 Id. at 21. Plaintiff attributed this difficulty to the fact that he was a New York Yankees fan, while coworkers supported the Philadelphia Phillies. Id. 29 Id. at 29. 30 Notice of Dismissal. 6 the law of this Circuit, unless the person imposing threats to the plaintiff has the ability to exercise extreme control over the plaintiff during the period when the plaintiff could timely file a claim, the plaintiff has not been prevented from asserting the claim.31 Plaintiff has not made the required showing that any alleged threats prevented him from acting after his employment ended. IV. Conclusion Because Plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, Defendant's motion for summary judgment will be granted. An order will be entered. 31 Frasier-Kane v. City of Philadelphia, 517 F. App'x 104, 105-06 (3d. Cir. 2013). In Fraiser-Kane, the Third Circuit rejected equitable tolling where the plaintiff brought an untimely action under § 1983 against a police officer who allegedly arrested her, regularly threatened to harm her, and routinely engaged in acts of intimidation toward her. 7


Eme, Vincent Obiora (1994) Design of an Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer enhanced oil recovery scheme for a Saudi Arabian limestone reservoir. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
Over 50% of the original oil in place is left behind after primary and secondary recovery. Alkali-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding process has been found to be capable of recovering some of the oil left behind after primary and secondary recovery. The polymer increases the macroscopic displacement efficiency. The alkali and surfacant lower the interfacial tension (IFT) which results in higher microscopic displacement efficiency. An alkaline-surfactant-polymer enhanced oil recovery (EOR) scheme was proposed for Saudi Arabian limestone reservoirs. The interaction between the reservoir brine, alkali, surfactant and polymer was investigated. The slug was formulated with a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate. B1083 anionic surfactant was chosen for the slug because it was thermally stable at the studied reservoir temperature of 90℃. A water-in-oil emulsion was formed in the B1083 surfactant/crude oil system. The presence of alkali and surfactant led to a decrease in the viscosity of the polymer (Flocon 4800C) solution. The addition of alkali to the surfactant solution did not result in any further decrease in the IFT of the surfactant/crude oil system. The adsorption of surfactant in the presence of alkali was lower than that without alkali. However, the percent reduction in adsorption decreases with increasing surfactant concentration. A new relationship for calculating the shear rate in porous media was developed.
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We wanted a PR company that could deliver our corporate message to the marketplace and convey the growth of the business and the expertise that we bring to every matter we advise on. Thursfields Solicitors is seeking to attract quality lawyers with a proven track record and we are also on the acquisition trial so it was vital that we raised our profile in the Midlands and legal market. ASAP has contributed significantly and their USP of employing journalists to write for journalists clearly reflects in their results for us.


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Washington, DC – At her confirmation hearing today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Chairman of its Water and Wildlife Subcommittee, praised Gina McCarthy, current Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency and President Obama's nominee to be the next administrator, for her public service and dedication.
"The Environmental Protection Agency has a responsibility to PROTECT the health and safety of the American people by protecting the health of our environment and the safety of our water and our air. EPA also has to be guided by the law and good science. Ms. McCarthy has a well-earned reputation for pragmatism, scientific leadership, environmental aspiration, and economic realism. I expect that she will continue to seek the very best science available to make good decisions on public policy.
"Given the federal-state partnership that is the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program, I look forward to working closely with Administrator McCarthy, once confirmed, to continue rehabilitation of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. In 2012, the Bay's health improved incrementally but the area in which the Bay's condition worsened was a decrease in underwater vegetation due to warmer water temperatures and unusually heavy rains. As both of these phenomena are linked to climate change, EPA will have to continue its path of tackling greenhouse gas emissions to promote the health of our water in Maryland and across the country.
"In addition to working for healthy waterways, Ms. McCarthy will bring her experience in the Office of Air and Radiation to bear in working for cleaner air. Air pollution threatens those with asthma and respiratory problems, and results each year in 12 million lost work days, 14 million lost school days, and 5,000 deaths. Air pollution controls protect public health and save billions of dollars in associated medical costs. Contrary to rhetoric claiming that these controls are job-killing, Maryland's experience in implementing the 2006 Maryland Healthy Air Act demonstrates that implementing air pollution controls can create well-paying jobs. I anticipate a productive working relationship with Ms. McCarthy to make sure that families can have clean air, water, and soil, all without sacrificing jobs.
"I am strongly committed to the fight against climate change, and I appreciate Ms. McCarthy's successes with fuel efficiency standards and mercury regulation. Our shorelines are buffeted by Superstorms like Sandy and our Western states face drought and wildfire. In February, the GAO included fiscal exposure due to climate change on the government's high risk list for the first time. In combating climate change Ms. McCarthy has helped the EPA to address these large scale threats to our nation through her thoughtful, scientific regulation."


Yesterday, the Swiss company Lonstroff owned by the Japanese company Sumitomo Rubber Industries planted trees in Logatec as a symbolic start of the construction of a medical elastomer plant. The new plant will erase on the degraded area of an abandoned factory and the construction is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019. The value of the investment is € 48 million. The Slovenian government has allocated a € 4.8 million grant to the project expected to create 180 new jobs.


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Playa del Fuego 2021 Cancelled
After a Community and Planning Committee vote on Feb. 16, 2021, the consensus is that Playa del Fuego 2021 will not be held as a physical event due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
As we all know, vaccines are rolling out and the pandemic landscape shifts day to day. Unfortunately, this was a decision that could not be delayed as PDF needed to notify the landlord of our intentions regarding PDF 2021 as soon as possible.
A proposal was received to cancel PDF 2021 and the new voting process was engaged.
As a result of that vote, PDF 2021 has been canceled. Please know, it breaks our hearts to cancel for the 2nd time.
Thank you to all the community members who took the time to participate in the vote!
The results from the open community vote were 46 Yay in favor of canceling and 22 Nay to go forward with planning the event. Under the newly instated Planning Committee voting rules, the Community vote is a simple majority of the votes cast and counts as 1 vote.
The decision was made official during the Feb. 16, 2021 Planning Committee live vote with a final vote tally of 16 Yay, 0 Nay, and 2 Abstain.


122 OHL players past and present are battling for AHL supremacy in the 2016 Calder Cup Playoffs that continue this weekend.
OHL alumni represent over 25% of all players competing in post-season action this season.
Past OHL standouts such as Joseph Blandisi (Barrie Colts/Albany Devils), Connor Brown (Erie Otters/Toronto Marlies) and Cole Cassels (Oshawa Generals/Utica Comets) join 2015-16 OHL talent in Mike Amadio (North Bay Battalion/Ontario Reign), Michael Dal Colle (Kingston Frontenenacs/Bridgeport Sound Tigers) and Vili Saarijarvi (Flint Firebirds/Grand Rapids Griffins) in the quest for the Calder Cup.
Last year, nine OHL graduates including three members of the 2014 OHL Champion Guelph Storm in Justin Auger, Ryan Horvat and Nick Ebert hoisted the Calder Cup with the Manchester Monarchs, the former AHL affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings.
All 16 AHL clubs feature OHL graduates with the AHL affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Toronto Marlies (17) and the affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings, the Ontario Reign (16) leading the way.
A total of 13 players that competed in the OHL during the 2015-16 season are included on AHL Playoff rosters.
For more information on the Calder Cup Playoffs visit theahl.com.


We are offering patients a new service, called Vision Online Services. This will let you book and cancel appointments on the internet. You will also be able to order repeat medication from us via the internet.
In the future you will be able to access your test results and at least part of your medical records online as well.
To access this service you will need to register your interest with us. You will then be given a letter which will enable you to create a username and password. When your account has been created and activated you will be able to book routine appointments with a GP and in the Phlebotomy clinic. You will also be able to view existing appointments and cancel them if required. You will be able to see your current repeat medication and order items when they are due. Your account will be updated to show when your request has been dealt with, at which point the prescription will then be sent to the GP for signing.
If you are interested in this service please ask a member of staff for the online registration form and return it to the practice.
Please note that, for Data Protection Purposes, each patient over the age of 13 will require their own account. You cannot use your e-mail address for access to online appointments or online repeat medication requests for any other person over the age of 13. You will be required to show some form of ID, eg driving licence before you can be given your online registration letter.


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Q: For loop in Pulp Python I have a Pulp problem that is working fine and gives me the right values, but I want to clean up the code. Here is the part in question:
prob += (select_vars['MeatA'] + select_vars['MeatB'] + select_vars['MeatC']) >= 3, ""

I want to put this into a for loop, like this:
meat_count = 0
Meats = ["MeatA", "MeatB", "MeatC"]
for i in Meats:
    if select_vars[i] is not None: meat_count += 1
    prob += meat_count >= 5, "Meat min"

But that is putting NoneTypes into my prob.variables() and I'm not sure why. There are no NoneTypes in my prob.variables() when I run it the first way without the for loop.
# Print out the variables with their optimal value
for v in prob.variables():
    print("some none ", v)
    if v.varValue > 0:
        print(v.name, "=", v.varValue)

A: First of all, I recommend you check the Case Studies in the PuLP documentation. There, you will see how to use loops to make general models that adapt to your data. Also: I'm not sure you're making a difference between python variables and PuLP variables, which is important.
In your case, you probably want to do something like the following:
import pulp
prob = pulp.LpProblem('example')
Meats = ['MeatA', 'MeatB', 'MeatC']
select_vars = pulp.LpVariable.dicts("selected_vars", Meats)
prob += pulp.lpSum(select_vars.get(m, 0) for m in Meats) >= 3, ""

But I insist, check the examples to see what each constraint does.


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Review by Stephen Theaker Warehouse 13 is reminiscent of the much-lamented Middleman (which apart from the odd clip on YouTube is only available to UK viewers on import DVD, [...]
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Review by Stephen Theaker Plague ravages the kingdom. Two accident-prone princes drop the antidote and are sent on a quest to find more. A wizard and a saucy lady thief [...]
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Review by Stephen Theaker A devilishly handsome vampire, a socially awkward werewolf and a heartbroken ghost share a house, but despite the set-up this isn't a sitcom, [...]
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Review by Stephen Theaker I cry pretty easily at films and TV programmes, but you're probably made of sterner stuff. You probably didn't cry when Buffy said [...]
The Babylonian Trilogy, Sebastien Doubinsky
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CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and the Financial Times said they would no longer take part in a much-anticipated Saudi investment conference, the latest media organizations to withdraw from the event following the disappearance of dissident columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
The AT&T-owned cable-news outlet and the financial newspaper, owned by Japan's Nikkei, had been named as media partners of the Future Investment Initiative, along with Bloomberg, Fox Business Network, and Al Aribiya News Channel. The event is scheduled to take place in Riyadh between Oct. 23 and Oct. 25. "CNN has withdrawn its participation in the Saudi Future Investment Initiative Conference," the network said in a statement.
Others quickly followed. NBCUniversal's CNBC has pulled out of its media partnership with the conference, a spokesman said. "The Financial Times will not be partnering with the FII conference in Riyadh while the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains unexplained," said Lionel Barber, the FT's editor, in a statement. "Bloomberg will no longer serve as a media partner for the Future Investment Initiative. As we do with every major event in the region, we plan to cover any news from our regional news bureau," the business-news provider said in a statement. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish said Thursday he would no longer take part in the conference.
On Friday afternoon, a spokeswoman for STX Entertainment said that Bob Simonds, CEO of the company, would no longer attend the conference.
Khashoggi has not been seen since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkish authorities have told reporters that Khashoggi was murdered in the consulate by a state-sponsored hit squad.
The conference is hosted by the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. Dubbed "Davos in the Desert," the conference was first held last year, and has been seen as an opportunity for the mideast nation to spotlight the modernization efforts of Crown Prince Mohammed.
Others have also withdrawn from the event, citing the Khashoggi matter as the deciding factor.
New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who had been slated to moderate a panel that would have included Viacom's Bakish, said on Twitter on Thursday that he was "terribly distressed" by Khashoggi's disappearance. The New York Times was also slated to be a "media partner" of the event, but announced on Wednesday that it would withdraw from the event. Mellody Hobson, the president of Ariel Investments and a former chairman of Dreamworks Animation, resigned on Thursday from the conference advisory board. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, said on Thursday that he would not attend the conference.
CNN did not elaborate on its reasons for terminating its association with the event.


Instead of the usual cheers, Decatur's four classes performed in the "In My Feelings" challenge at this year's second pep rally. The seniors, who won, received Spirit Points, a new system implemented by SGA to increase school spirit. During Homecoming week, classes received points by winning the "Spirit Stick," and making the best homecoming float.
Senior Jordan Kupersmith proposed a Spirit Points task force to SGA earlier this year and said she has been working diligently to keep it in action.
The main goal of spirit points is to create a "fun and easy way to demonstrate class and school spirit" After announcing the program Jordan sent out a google form to gauge how excited the students would be on this idea, and the majority of replies were positive.
"It's just a friendly competition with incentives," said Kupersmith; whichever class wins the most spirit points receives a King of Pops party at the end of the year. There will be more opportunities to earn Spirit Points throughout the year, as Kupersmith looks to expand spirit points as far as to class participation in community service projects and clean up days.


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Q: classifying space and cohomology of integer general linear group I have obtained that the classifying space
$$
BGL(\mathbb{R}^n)=BO(\mathbb{R}^n)=G_n(\mathbb{R}^\infty)
$$
is the Grassmannian.
I have also obtained that the mod 2 cohomology is the polynomial algebra
$$
H^*(BGL(\mathbb{R}^n);\mathbb{Z}_2)=\mathbb{Z}_2[w_1,\cdots,w_n].
$$
Let $GL(\mathbb{Z}^n)$ be the group consisting of all $n\times n$ matrices with integer entries such that the determinants are either $1$ or $-1$.
What isthe classifying space
$$BGL(\mathbb{Z}^n)?$$
What is the cohomology algebra
$$
H^*(BGL(\mathbb{Z}^n);\mathbb{Z}_2)=?
$$
Could you give any  references? Thanks.

A: As far as I know the answer is not known. If $R$ satisfies Bass' stable rank condition, e.g. if it is a field or Dedekind domain, the group homology $H_*(GL_n(R);A)$ with trivial coefficients $A$ stabilizes and the stable homology is equal to that of $K(R)$, the algebraic K-theory spectrum of $R$. These spectra are hard to understand, though some things are known in the case $R = \mathbb{Z}$ after a lot of work by great mathematicians. For example, the homotopy groups of $K(\mathbb{Z})$ are known except in degrees divisible by $4$. If you only care about the prime 2, the rational homotopy groups can be deduced from Borel's work and the 2-primary subgroups of the homotopy groups of $K(\mathbb{Z})$ are completely known, see Corollary VI.9.8 of Weibel's K-book.
In terms of (co)homology, here is one remark: I think it should be comparably hard to study $H^*(GL(\mathbb{Z});\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})$ and $H^*(GL(\mathbb{Q});\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})$. This is because we have Quillen's localization fiber sequence $\bigvee_p K(\mathbb{F}_p) \to K(\mathbb{Z}) \to K(\mathbb{Q})$ and his stable computation of the (co)homology of general linear groups over finite fields. He computes explicitly $H^*(GL_n(\mathbb{F}_q);\mathbb{F}_l)$ with $q$, $l$ coprime in theorem 3 of On the cohomology and K-theory of the general linear groups over a finite field (and stably he also computes it if $q$ and $l$ are not coprime). Alternatively, theorem 5 of that paper gives a computation of the stable homology as the homology of the homotopy fiber of a certain self-map of $BU$.

A: I'm pretty sure that the stable cohomology with $\mathbb{Z}/2$ coefficients is not known, but Borel calculated $H^{\ast}(\text{GL}(\mathbb{Z});\mathbb{Q})$ in
A. Borel, Stable real cohomology of arithmetic groups, Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. (4) 7 (1974), 235–272 (1975).

A: Let me give a more detailed answer, to give more context to the list of references. Unfortunately, these answers grow to encyclopedic size so easily...
Stable results: as mentioned in all the answers, the question becomes easier by stabilizing $GL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ to $GL_\infty(\mathbb{Z})$. In this case, one can use K-theory (or even motivic) methods. This is essentially what is done in the following papers:

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*S.A. Mitchell. On the plus construction for $BGL(\mathbb{Z}[1/2])$ at the prime 2.
Math. Z. 209 (1992), no. 2, 205–222.

*D. Arlettaz, M. Mimura, K. Nakahata, N. Yagita.
The mod 2 cohomology of the linear groups over the ring of integers.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), no. 8, 2199–2212.
In particular, the last paper explicitly answers the stable question: there is a ring isomorphism
$$
H^{\bullet}(BGL(\mathbb{Z})^+,\mathbb{Z}/2)\cong
H^{\bullet}(BO,\mathbb{Z}/2)\otimes H^{\bullet}(SU,\mathbb{Z}/2)
$$
(plus some more statements about Hopf algebra structure and Steenrod operations). This is based on explicit models for the 2-completed classifying space, eventually using Voevodsky's solution of the Milnor conjecture (resp. the Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjecture relating étale and algebraic K-theory).
I would expect that the result could actually be generalized to some extent, say to get some statements with odd torsion coefficients (using the Rost-Voevodsky solution of the Milnor-Bloch-Kato conjecture) or other rings of $S$-integers - but I am not aware of papers doing this.
Unstable results: The unstable case, the actual computation of $H^\bullet(GL_n(\mathbb{Z}),\mathbb{Z}/2)$ is more complicated, the K-theoretic or motivic methods do no longer work. Descriptions of an étale version of the classifying space can still be obtained (see the Topological models for arithmetic of Dwyer-Friedlander), but it is usually not possible to compare this to the actual classifying space.
The classifying space: the classifying space itself is not actually easy to describe or helpful. A better approximation to the classifying space is the locally symmetric space $GL_n(\mathbb{Z})\backslash GL_n(\mathbb{R})/O(n)$. There is more geometry to study this space, but $GL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ acts non-freely, with finite isotropy. Analysis of L^2-cohomology of this space is the basis of Borel's computation of rational cohomology of $GL_n(\mathbb{Z})$. With finite coefficients, the space is difficult to understand, cohomology is influenced by the finite subgroups and their normalizers as well as compactly supported cohomology of the locally symmetric space (which I would like to view as cusp forms with finite coefficients, but this is not mathematically precise).
Explicit computations: there are not so many. The computation of $H^\bullet(SL_2\mathbb{Z},\mathbb{Z}/2)$ is an exercise. Rank two, i.e. $SL_3$ resp. $GL_3$ is already a substantial work:

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*C. Soulé. The cohomology of $SL_3(\mathbb{Z})$.
Topology 17 (1978), no. 1, 1–22.

I am not aware of (complete all-degree) computations with higher rank - although Voronoi methods have been used to partially compute homology of $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ for $n\leq 8$, the small primes are usually excluded. I would expect that for $SL_4(\mathbb{Z})$ everything is controlled by the finite subgroups, but I could not make this sufficiently precise. See the paper of Dutour-Sikiric, Ellis,Schürmann or the paper of Elbaz-Vincent, Gangl, Soulé.
Quillen conjecture, exotic cohomology: to illustrate how much more complicated the unstable case is, compared to the stable case (although this is slightly different from the situation in the question). There is a conjecture of Quillen which in particular predicts that the restriction map $H^\bullet(GL_n\mathbb{Z}[1/2],\mathbb{Z}/2)\to H^\bullet(D_n(\mathbb{Z}[1/2]),\mathbb{Z}/2)$ is injective, where $D_n$ is the subgroup of diagonal matrices. This is true in low degree by work of Mitchell ($n=2$) and Henn ($n=3$), and stably (see the paper of Arlettaz et al. mentioned above). It is however false for $n\geq 32$ by

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*W. Dwyer. Exotic cohomology for $GL_n(\mathbb{Z}[1/2])$. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 2159--2167.

Further information can be found in K.P. Knudson: Homology of linear groups. Birkhäuser 2001.


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